Facebook in Egypt: April 6 and the Perception of a New Political Sphere

Christopher Wilson

Chapter 4.1 in Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society, 2010, pp 97-98 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Suppression of political opposition in Egypt is reinforced through mainstream media control and a 29-year-old state of emergency, which allows for arbitrary and indefinite detention, as well as prohibiting public gatherings of more than five people. Since the turn of the millennium, however, Facebook has been producing important arenas for political information and organization (Khaled 2009).

Keywords: Political Sphere; Political Opposition; Social Network Structure; Political Information; Constitutional Reform (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-29904-7_15

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9780230299047

DOI: 10.1057/9780230299047_15

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().